Unfortunately Mr. Hurst drags the politics of climate change into his argument against a proposal to build an interstate high-voltage transmission line crossing his state. Mr. Hurst should know climate change isn’t the reason for the $2 billion line because it’s actually investors, some of whom made their money in oil and who are looking to make a buck by moving low-cost wind energy to the East where prices are higher.

Thus it’s good old-fashioned capitalism that is pushing for the power line in a manner not dissimilar to interstate natural-gas pipeline firms which, by the way, have been taking away “rights on real farms” since 1942 when the federal government granted them the right to eminent domain.